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Buscemi, Tucci team with eOne

Entertainment One (eOne) has partnered with Hollywood stars Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci, signing a first-look deal with the duo’s Olive Productions label.

Stanley Tucci

Under the multi-year pact, eOne and New York-based Olive will develop and produce premium scripted series. eOne will be the studio and will also hold worldwide rights to shows that come from the partnership.

Olive was formed by actor, directors and executive producers Buscemi and Tucci and their producing partner Wren Arthur in 2008 to produce TV and film projects, both fiction and documentary. The company claims to focus on stories with great characters, humour and compassion.

Arthur said: “We’ve found a globally minded studio partner that shares in our commitment to bold, strong, irreverent characters. We look forward to reaching audiences around the globe through stories that matter.”

Pancho Mansfield, eOne Television’s president of global scripted programming, added: “As producers, Steve and Stanley have an unparalleled sense for finding standout characters and bringing them to the screen.”

Steve Buscemi

Olive’s recent feature projects include Final Portrait, written and directed by Tucci and starring Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival; Paint it Black, starring Janet Mcteer and Alia Shawkat; and Check It, a documentary about a gay African-American street gang, directed by Toby Oppenheimer and Dana Flor.

Tucci previously starred in the first season of Sky Atlantic drama Fortitude and is set to appear as Jack Warner in Feud, Ryan Murphy’s new series about the rivalry between Joan Crawford and Betty Davis for US cable network FX.

Buscemi, meanwhile, currently stars in Louis CK’s comedy Horace & Pete and is also an Emmy-nominated director whose TV credits include The Sopranos, Portlandia and Nurse Jackie.

Arthur is head of production and development and an executive producer at Olive. Her credits include Check It, Paint it Black, A Good Job, Medora and Submission. She previously worked with director, writer and producer Robert Altman.

The agreement is the latest first-look deal signed by eOne, whose other TV partners include The Mark Gordon Company, Amblin Partners – a joint venture with Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Studios, Participant Media and Reliance Entertainment – and Sierra Pictures.

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